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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8016

28 July 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/asylum
On occasion of 50th anniversary of Geneva Convention, EU places emphasis on absolute respect of right of asylum

Brussels, 27/07/2001 (Agence Europe) - On the occasion of the 50 Anniversary of the 1951 Convention on the status of refugees, Saturday 28 July, the European Union is to make a declaration in which it "reaffirms its commitment to this unique instrument as the foundation of the international regime for the protection of refugees, calls on all States that have not yet done so to ratify the 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol, and calls on those States which have made geographical limitations and...

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